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Originally Posted by garçoncanadien
might I ask what does that mean
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Certainly.
Moths are known to be attracted to lit candles (and other flickering lights) at night. They will flutter ceaselessly around a candle or fire, to the point that they will sometimes fly straight in to the flames and destroy themselves. To say somebody is attracted like a moth to a flame is to say they are irresistably drawn to something, even to their own detriment.
For example, one could say children are drawn to a candy store like moths to a flame, or that Alizée walking down the street would draw a fan like a moth to a flame :-)
The fact that papillon means both Butterfly and Moth means the translation loses some of the imagery (I think, and the video bears this out, she was thinking more along the lines of "butterfly" for herself), but butterflies don't demonstrate this self-destructive behavior, so I had to use Moth for it to retain the analogy.
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D'oh! Hollister beat me to it :-P